2020

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/news/20200528/presque-isle-beaches-to-open-for-swimming-june-6 Lately, it feels like the world is coming apart at the seams. The coronavirus has now killed over 100,000 Americans as we struggle more than ever to agree on how to respond, Minneapolis is on fire as I speak after yet another black man […]

Light at the end of the tunnel – Something good happened in Erie, 4/24/2020

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good stories of the week: Sara’s opens for season on Thursday Most of Presque Isle State Park reopens Wolf: Northwest PA one of first areas to reopen May 8 Three good news stories in one week! Here’s why: I just needed some damn good news and figured I wasn’t the […]

Moby Dick found in Presque Isle Bay – Something good happened in Erie, 3/6/2020

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/sports/20200304/40-pound-endangered-fish-caught-in-presque-isle-bay Just look at it. That’s the biggest fish I’ve ever seen hauled out of the bay. I know it’s a type of sucker – a “bigmouth buffalo” – and that suckers are gross and not worth eating and blah blah blah. I don’t care. […]

Presque Isle gets its sand – Something good happened in Erie, 6/28/2019

Crews work to spread around some delicious sand along Presque Isle. | Photo via Christopher Millette, Erie Times-News. Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/news/20190624/kelly-announces-presque-isle-sand-work-during-erie-stop?template=ampart Have you ever been so excited about sand that you totally forgot about Canada? No? Mike Kelly has. Get a load of this: “We have an […]